Our Day at Gleaners Food Bank

Last Saturday, January 9, a group of 10 teens from St. Anastasia took a trip to Gleaners Food Bank to volunteer for a few hours. We arrived and received a brief orientation and nutrition lesson from our host and began immediately packing snack packages for kids whose families can not afford to feed them three meals a day. This program is called Kids Helping Kids (K.H.K.). During our brief time at Gleaners our group packaged 4 pallets of food totaling in 1680 lbs. of food for those less fortunate. We came back to St. Anastasia for lunch and had a great discussion about how and why people struggle to support their families... even with something as basic as food.

Kids Helping Kids is a program that combines volunteerism, nutrition education and hunger awareness for school-aged children. K.H.K. encourages sharing and helps the less fortunate. For more information and ways you can help visit the Gleaners Community Food Bank website.

God bless!